[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Calgary’s homeless issue might be worse than it has been recently but I think you’re exaggerating. Working downtown, I can’t say I can perceive any noticeable difference between this month and the same time 3 years ago. If anything, it’s gotten better near my office, so maybe people are just more set up somewhere else.

I’ve heard the train is quite bad, which is an issue. But that really depends on the source, too. Pre-COVID it was not unusual to be in a car with obviously homeless people passed out, fighting, or generally causing a disturbance.

I feel like, in part, people have really forgotten some of what being in public and around others in an urban environment is like. To say Calgary “now” has a homeless issue is either to have been totally ignorant of the issue that was already there, or hyperbolic in evaluating where it is today. Especially downtown, when you’re situated between places like the Drop In, Chumir, Mustard Seed, Cups, these people exist in numbers and have for a long time.

The concerning part is the stories of random attacks.

It is certainly possible my anecdote is exaggeration of the problem for sure. I would not say my observation is the 100% fact based we need to roll with I just have noticed on my recent trips back to Calgary many more numbers of homeless people. It's possible they are just migrating around more I suppose, or that my view is skewed because of the new place I am living where there are fewer-ish kinda.